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## What is a proxy?
Generally speaking, a proxy is a server that stays between a client and the target server.
![Proxy image from Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server#/media/File:Proxy_concept_en.svg)
![Proxy Image from wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server#/media/File:Proxy_concept_en.svg)
They are tipically used in web scraping project for the following reasons:
- Ip rotation, a single scraper execution connects to multiple proxies, so the target website doesn't see that requests are coming from a single source
- Avoid geoblocking, some websites have different behaviours in different geographical areas.
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